The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1656 - Over 200 Trump Executive Actions Bring MASSIVE Change

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00:00:56.760 Besides not one but two inauguration speeches, one after the other,

00:01:01.820 and three inaugural balls, one of which I attended, if I look and sound a little bleary-eyed,

00:01:07.740 President Trump spent yesterday issuing dozens of executive orders,

00:01:13.620 hundreds of executive actions, and the most dramatic policy reset for the better,

00:01:19.200 but just period, the most dramatic policy reset for our country in perhaps 70 or even 80 years.

00:01:26.620 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:03:22.520 There's so many executive orders, so many executive actions to get to a deep significance

00:03:28.880 that I haven't really heard a lot of people talking about.

00:03:32.620 But it's an amazing policy reset for our country for the better.

00:03:37.360 Some of the best stuff we have seen in upwards of a century, certainly since the Second World War.

00:03:41.960 But before we get to any of that, I think a guy on Twitter summed up the mood in Washington

00:03:51.080 and in the whole country right now.

00:03:52.900 President Trump had about a billion events yesterday.

00:03:55.460 But after one of them, at the big rally that he held, he introduced the village people.

00:04:01.400 Trump at his rallies, he plays the YMCA and he does the Trump dance and everything.

00:04:05.240 But he brought the actual village people on stage.

00:04:09.780 Just take a listen.

00:04:10.740 Now, that clip alone is great.

00:04:21.140 But the best part of it, it was summed up by Elder, the Icelandic gay guy, who says, 0.70

00:04:25.760 this is how genocides begin. 0.81

00:04:28.940 First, they ban tampons from men's bathrooms. 0.91

00:04:32.400 Then the iconic gay disco band sings for Hitler. 0.96

00:04:35.780 That's it, that's it.

00:04:39.200 Everything they tried to throw at Trump has collapsed, everything. 0.88

00:04:43.280 He's Hitler, he's a threat to democracy. 0.97

00:04:46.220 We're standing for the rule of law.

00:04:47.840 No one's above the law, all of it.

00:04:49.160 The libs have been proven wrong on all of it.

00:04:52.020 Joe Biden exits office in complete disgrace, even within his own party.

00:04:56.860 Trump vindicated on everything, on literally everything, unlike 19th century tariff policy,

00:05:07.020 like everything, everything he was vindicated.

00:05:09.300 He wasted no time getting started.

00:05:13.380 50 some odd executive orders, executive orders, of course, are legally binding.

00:05:18.560 Initially, President Trump was planning on 25 or something, but the number went way up.

00:05:22.580 He's got to make records, and one Trump official said, quote, this is a massive record-setting,

00:05:28.080 unmatched first wave, the most extensive list of executive actions in American history,

00:05:32.680 all guided by a relentless commitment to deliver on the campaign promise.

00:05:36.100 And this is important.

00:05:37.200 He's not just racking up EOs so he can put another notch in his belt and set another record,

00:05:42.800 but it's all for a distinct purpose.

00:05:45.420 This was my biggest takeaway from his inauguration speeches, two of them.

00:05:49.060 This is my biggest takeaway from policy on day one.

00:05:53.160 It's coherent.

00:05:54.600 This is not scattershot.

00:05:56.120 He's not shooting from the hip.

00:05:57.560 It is all in service of Trump's political vision for the country, which is not only coherent,

00:06:05.000 it is more coherent than the policy vision of basically any, maybe any president in my lifetime,

00:06:12.120 not even just any Republican president.

00:06:13.900 So what did he do?

00:06:14.680 He declares a national border emergency to effectively close the US southern border.

00:06:20.420 Now, there's a cynical way to use national emergencies.

00:06:24.080 The Democrats have sometimes threatened this on things like climate change, which is not

00:06:27.320 a real national emergency.

00:06:28.800 In this case, though, when you have, what is it, 8 million or more, 11 million border encounters

00:06:34.120 under Joe Biden's watch, that is actually an emergency. 0.94

00:06:37.380 And these illegals are killing Americans. 1.00

00:06:39.780 That open border is poisoning the country, hundreds of thousands of people killed by fentanyl. 0.96

00:06:43.480 So it's legit.

00:06:44.860 I don't even know how a Democrat could tell you it's not a national emergency.

00:06:48.100 That's number one.

00:06:49.560 Number two, a potential citizenship order that could end birthright citizenship for the

00:06:55.760 children of illegals.

00:06:56.700 This was promised years ago by Trump in a video he posted May of 2023.

00:07:01.720 This will certainly meet massive legal challenges.

00:07:04.180 It could upend constitutional precedent going back to Wong Kim Ark, an 1898 Supreme Court decision

00:07:10.680 that really has its roots in the common law and even in British jurisprudence.

00:07:15.640 But there's this problem with birthright citizenship.

00:07:18.700 Granted by the 14th Amendment, the people who wrote the 14th Amendment, the people who ratified

00:07:23.200 the 14th Amendment never foresaw that this provision to bring former slaves into the American political

00:07:31.900 order would be used to incentivize foreign nationals to just come into the country and have

00:07:37.100 banker babies.

00:07:37.840 No one predicted that.

00:07:39.660 And so while there is some argument for the right of the soil, the notion that if you're

00:07:45.800 born within the jurisdiction of a political order that you are subject to that political

00:07:50.580 order, you could even become a citizen.

00:07:52.280 This has just become so extreme.

00:07:54.240 It's been taken well out of the realm of prudence or any serious limit for it.

00:07:58.520 So I think this is a really important thing.

00:07:59.960 I'm very much on Trump's side here.

00:08:01.980 I hope the court agrees eventually.

00:08:05.480 Government to end offshore wind leases.

00:08:10.060 So that's on hold.

00:08:10.880 Trump wants to drill baby drill, as he said, and the wind farms aren't doing very much.

00:08:15.340 He then also ends the electric vehicle mandate for automakers.

00:08:19.120 He's withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord.

00:08:22.160 He's pointing out that federal workers can now be fired for political insubordination.

00:08:27.640 This is really important.

00:08:28.880 In Trump's first term, he passes all this policy, certainly from the executive branch,

00:08:34.080 but even from the legislature.

00:08:35.880 And then he's undermined by his own employees because you have this federal bureaucracy that's

00:08:41.240 going to be there.

00:08:42.280 Even if a president serves two terms, the president's come and go, but these bureaucrats remain the 0.73

00:08:47.280 same.

00:08:48.080 So if the bureaucrats are not going to get on board with the political agenda, if they're 1.00

00:08:51.720 not going to follow orders, then they're out.

00:08:53.280 That's how it would work in the military.

00:08:54.840 That's how it would work in a private corporation.

00:08:56.640 That's how it should work in the government too.

00:08:58.160 This is another issue that goes back to the 19th century.

00:09:00.860 What Trump is doing is in many ways resuscitating and revising policies that have been in place

00:09:09.320 for a very, very long time now.

00:09:11.080 This is a deep political vision.

00:09:13.100 People mock Trump for supposedly having a shallow view of politics.

00:09:16.480 That's not what I see.

00:09:17.180 I see a deeper grappling with politics than any Republican politician in my lifetime.

00:09:22.660 He's digging in and he's getting a lot of pushback for it, as we might expect.

00:09:26.660 But even beginning 1881 with the presidencies of James Garfield and then certainly Chester

00:09:32.120 Arthur, you saw a shift away from the spoils system that would give political jobs just to

00:09:37.940 cronies toward a civil service.

00:09:40.160 And at the time, that was considered a great reform because the spoils system had been corrupt.

00:09:45.080 However, the civil service has become corrupt.

00:09:47.240 This is something that happens in a fallen world, is that systems and institutions become corrupt.

00:09:52.760 And so you have to refresh them.

00:09:54.380 You have to reinvigorate them.

00:09:55.980 You have to adapt.

00:09:56.980 Politics is adapting eternal principles to changing circumstances.

00:10:00.240 It's not enough to just repeat the same slogans, be they from 1984 or 1884, for that matter.

00:10:06.700 You have to recognize that circumstances are changing.

00:10:09.560 You gotta keep up with the program.

00:10:10.980 A lot of never-Trump Republicans, they refuse to keep up with the program.

00:10:14.840 They refuse to acknowledge that a policy that might have been good even in the 80s or in

00:10:20.480 the 19th century and the 17th century might not be good anymore.

00:10:23.660 So this reform of the civil service, of the bureaucracy, to bring them into line with the

00:10:29.820 political winds, that's a good thing.

00:10:31.180 That's not dirty.

00:10:32.520 That's not necessarily corrupt.

00:10:34.840 We have a system where the people are supposed to be able to control our own government.

00:10:39.120 And so if bureaucrats are refusing to go along with the political realities that the people

00:10:45.300 want, then the corruption lies there in the civil service.

00:10:48.980 Trump has also said that bureaucrats will be hired based on merit.

00:10:55.160 He's also gonna end work from home.

00:10:56.540 So he's gonna make them come back in.

00:10:59.040 COVID's over.

00:10:59.940 Okay, you gotta come to work, actually.

00:11:02.500 This focus on merit is really important.

00:11:05.060 Now, there are some problems with the merit talk.

00:11:07.400 Because merit is one of these words that sounds very clinical and scientific and objective.

00:11:13.060 But it actually smuggles in all sorts of philosophical priors.

00:11:17.480 It smuggles in a whole conception of justice.

00:11:19.860 We were talking about this during the H-1B debate.

00:11:22.500 When you say we want a merit-based system, what does that mean exactly?

00:11:26.680 Some people will argue that we need a merit-based system, and therefore we need to import a ton

00:11:30.740 of Indians to do tech jobs.

00:11:32.320 Because they deserve it.

00:11:33.340 They're smarter than the Americans.

00:11:34.580 Well, hold on.

00:11:35.340 Other people are gonna argue, as they did in the other side of the H-1B debate.

00:11:38.960 They'll say, hold on.

00:11:40.000 Americans deserve, they merit special consideration in their own country.

00:11:44.600 They deserve, they merit more consideration from their politicians than foreigners do. 1.00

00:11:49.380 So what do we even really mean by merit here?

00:11:52.000 Trump is using this language, and I agree with the way in which he is using it.

00:11:55.980 But we have to be aware of our own propaganda a little bit, too.

00:12:00.900 There is a conception of justice that is filling in here.

00:12:03.660 And Trump has told us what his is.

00:12:05.080 His is America first. 0.94

00:12:07.180 Good.

00:12:07.520 That's a good way to guide our understanding of justice moving into the Trump era.

00:12:11.400 Let's not allow those words to be twisted.

00:12:13.620 Just like freedom's twisted by the libs, equality is twisted by the libs, merit, justice is twisted by the libs.

00:12:21.600 Then, major, major news on pardons and on further executive action.

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00:13:39.020 Plans for sweeping pardons have been reported for every person arrested in connection with January 6th.

00:13:44.880 Sorry, sorry.

00:13:46.940 My voice is a little off after a few days in the imperial capital.

00:13:51.260 January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any republic.

00:13:54.460 Look, that could encompass 1,625 people across all 50 states, over 465 people in prison.

00:14:04.580 Then, in order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, President Trump spoke about that.

00:14:11.380 And then also to declare a national energy emergency.

00:14:14.140 This is perhaps less tangible, less visible to people than the national emergency at the border.

00:14:20.400 But we do have an energy emergency.

00:14:22.400 You know, energy can dictate the fate of great nations.

00:14:26.980 I was speaking to my friend Alan Estrin, the executive director of PragerU.

00:14:30.940 He said, you know, by my analysis of great powers rising and falling, it pretty much all comes down to energy.

00:14:36.520 And the left has sought to destroy America's energy, to stop us from drilling, to stop us from fracking, to stop us from building nuclear power plants, to stop us from using any energy that actually works.

00:14:47.960 And what do they want to do?

00:14:49.300 They want to sing Kumbaya around the windmill and put some solar panels in a few parking lots, and that's that.

00:14:55.860 Not going to cut it.

00:14:57.620 Here is how the New York Times covered, in particular, the birthright citizenship executive order.

00:15:02.280 Get a load of this.

00:15:02.920 This is, if the New York Times were not now largely irrelevant, this would bother me.

00:15:10.820 Now I just want to laugh.

00:15:11.920 They say, declare an end to birthright citizenship, a guarantee granted by the 14th Amendment for the children of undocumented immigrants. 0.96

00:15:21.320 The president cannot change the Constitution on his own.

00:15:25.260 So it's not yet clear how Trump plans to withhold the benefits of citizenship to a group of people born in the United States.

00:15:31.700 All right, did you catch that?

00:15:34.360 Did you catch that because you were listening to the show yesterday?

00:15:37.360 The president cannot change the Constitution on his own.

00:15:40.520 One of Joe Biden's final acts as president was to try to change the Constitution on his own.

00:15:47.680 That was one of the last things he did.

00:15:48.940 Other than trying to pardon his corrupt family members, to protect himself, a corrupt politician, from being investigated and facing consequences for selling state influence for his personal enrichment, allegedly.

00:16:01.360 Biden tried to single-handedly ratify the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, this feminist nonsense that would have transed our culture 50 years before anyone was really talking about it. 1.00

00:16:14.760 It failed.

00:16:15.520 It failed, the Equal Rights Amendment, failed its first deadline in the 1970s.

00:16:20.680 It failed its second deadline in the early 1980s, 1982.

00:16:24.540 It's done.

00:16:25.720 They needed to get 38 states to ratify this amendment.

00:16:28.400 They only got 35. 0.97

00:16:29.240 It's done.

00:16:29.740 But then a couple years ago, a few years ago, Virginia decides to ratify it decades after the deadline.

00:16:36.340 And then years after that, Joe Biden says, okay, I now declare it the law of the land.

00:16:40.100 So you got one day, Joe Biden single-handedly trying to change the Constitution.

00:16:44.920 New York Times, all supportive of it.

00:16:47.400 They either keep mom or they support it. 0.82

00:16:49.160 And then days later, two days later, Donald Trump offers a legitimate interpretation of a contentious question pertaining to the meaning of an amendment that's already been ratified.

00:17:05.880 And the New York Times up in arms. 0.91

00:17:07.860 Just totally ridiculous. 0.71

00:17:10.680 Now, Trump gave two inauguration speeches. 0.95

00:17:13.540 That's how fired up he is.

00:17:14.860 We covered it a lot yesterday.

00:17:16.520 We were live from the Capitol.

00:17:17.600 Right now, I've got the Capitol behind me.

00:17:21.320 But yesterday, I was suffering the freezing cold.

00:17:23.920 And it didn't even feel like suffering because of how great the speeches were.

00:17:28.360 President Trump made a lot of very particular claims in the speech.

00:17:35.340 Inauguration speeches are very often high-minded, soaring rhetoric, 30,000-foot view.

00:17:41.540 And Trump's had that as well.

00:17:43.060 But what was distinctive about Trump's inauguration speech is he tied the high-flying rhetoric to particular policy proposals, notably on American territory itself.

00:17:59.540 And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal.

00:18:03.260 And we didn't give it to China.

00:18:05.380 We gave it to Panama.

00:18:06.860 And we're taking it back.

00:18:08.420 The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation.

00:18:14.140 One that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.

00:18:25.140 And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.

00:18:30.660 Our manifest destiny.

00:18:32.920 The manifest destiny is an old term going back to the 19th century.

00:18:38.480 You're noticing a lot of 19th century coming back.

00:18:40.880 A lot of America's greatness, these eras of expansion, growth, coming back in the person of Trump.

00:18:47.780 And manifest destiny is the American iteration of an ancient concept called the Translatio Imperii, that the empire, the power, the authority of the governing body moves.

00:19:03.420 Why does it move?

00:19:04.180 The idea of it comes from Troy, actually, that when Aeneas leaves Troy, the Translatio Imperii moves westward.

00:19:12.880 It moves from Troy to Rome and the founding of the Roman Empire.

00:19:19.880 And this is actually why Emperor Constantine is sometimes criticized, because Constantine moves the empire in the wrong direction, starts moving it east from Rome to Constantinople.

00:19:31.980 It's this notion that we're moving, we're growing.

00:19:35.840 It is actually part of the logic of history that the empire is to expand, and to expand westward.

00:19:41.620 So when the early United States existed as merely 13 colonies on the east coast of the continent, the notion of manifest destiny arose that we were supposed to conquer westward.

00:19:52.800 Go west, young man.

00:19:53.740 And then at some point, after 1959, I guess, we just decided that America could not expand anymore.

00:20:02.920 We shouldn't take on new territories.

00:20:04.960 Everything had to be perfectly fixed.

00:20:06.700 In part, this is because after the Second World War, we adopted a liberal fiction that borders were going to remain exactly fixed forever.

00:20:14.300 Now, that, of course, doesn't make sense, because people grow and people contract.

00:20:17.800 We have a problem in the west right now that we don't have any children anymore.

00:20:22.400 So if you stop having children, you're going to lose your borders. 0.94

00:20:25.020 Your country's going to contract.

00:20:26.120 Countries rise and countries fall.

00:20:27.960 And so it's not merely an injustice, a fact of the fallen world, that national borders change and that some countries grow and some countries shrink.

00:20:36.400 It's actually a necessity.

00:20:37.980 It's a political necessity because people change, because time goes on, because history moves.

00:20:42.060 And Trump's saying time is moving on, and we want to make sure that we continue to grow, that we continue to be great, that we're not left behind by history.

00:20:49.040 Now, here, Trump might be insinuating an expansion eastward.

00:20:53.680 He might be talking about Greenland, as he's been discussing in recent weeks.

00:20:58.060 Or to follow the logic of manifest destiny, the translatio imperi, and take it into, I don't know, three dimensions, four dimensions, I don't know, to take it onto another axis.

00:21:08.540 He's talking about expanding even into outer space.

00:21:13.600 I guess we'll go back to the moon, but we're going to go to Mars.

00:21:16.100 We're going to keep exploring.

00:21:17.260 We're going to keep growing.

00:21:18.680 This is going to surprise some people who view Trump as a rigid nationalist.

00:21:26.100 You've heard this from the liberal media, warnings about Christian nationalism.

00:21:30.640 I always tell people, if you're worried about Christian nationalism, just wait till you discover unchristian nationalism. 0.90

00:21:36.280 That's going to be a lot worse, trust me.

00:21:39.080 But here even, I've hesitated to call myself a Christian nationalist, beyond a practical way that perhaps Christianity is better than the alternatives. 0.93

00:21:48.760 I am a Christian.

00:21:49.440 I believe Christianity is true.

00:21:51.380 If you don't like Christianity, just wait till you hear about the alternatives. 1.00

00:21:54.720 And nationalism is good.

00:21:56.660 It's better than liberal globalism.

00:21:57.980 But I sometimes say, no, I'm not a Christian nationalist.

00:22:00.900 I'm a Christian imperialist. 0.56

00:22:02.420 Because the empire traditionally is considered to be the ideal form of government.

00:22:06.600 But when it goes bad, it can go really, really bad.

00:22:09.080 Like the liberal globalist empire is really awful.

00:22:10.940 Trump here, I think, is shifting away a little bit from a nearly nationalist perspective, a 20th century perspective,

00:22:21.060 into a more classical and older perspective of expansion, of growth, of recognizing that America is the global empire.

00:22:31.480 It just is.

00:22:32.240 We just are.

00:22:32.740 You might like that.

00:22:34.320 You might not like that.

00:22:35.780 We have a lot of foreign dignitaries who flew in for this inauguration from countries all around the world.

00:22:42.420 People don't fly in for Tibet's elections.

00:22:46.720 Does Tibet have elections?

00:22:47.960 People don't fly in for the changing of the guard in Liechtenstein.

00:22:53.200 But they do fly in for the American inauguration.

00:22:55.480 With the global empire, Trump says, we're going to be strong.

00:22:59.720 Especially when he talks about the Panama Canal.

00:23:04.280 He says, look, we don't have the Panama Canal so that we can sell it to China.

00:23:09.860 We're taking that back.

00:23:11.240 We're taking that back.

00:23:12.180 That's ours.

00:23:13.360 That's right.

00:23:13.880 That is ours.

00:23:14.540 That is strong.

00:23:16.220 That is just.

00:23:17.440 That's in America's interest.

00:23:18.900 And it tells the rest of the world, China, you think we're going to contract and you're going to expand?

00:23:23.600 No.

00:23:24.400 Actually, you know what?

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00:25:10.520 Trump then, speaking of the 19th century, brings up in his first inauguration speech,

00:25:16.600 in the modest inauguration speech, he brings up McKinley, President and Mountain.

00:25:22.780 In a short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to

00:25:29.020 the Gulf of America, and we will restore the name.

00:25:34.720 Of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where

00:25:41.120 it belongs.

00:25:41.680 President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.

00:25:57.500 He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things

00:26:03.160 he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama

00:26:09.860 after the United States.

00:26:12.280 The United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before

00:26:18.400 and lost 38,000 lives.

00:26:21.180 So, so true.

00:26:24.800 We invested not only money, but lives into building the Panama Canal.

00:26:29.780 We're going to take it back.

00:26:31.200 We're also going to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, who's going to stop. 0.70

00:26:35.560 Why can't we do that?

00:26:36.940 Why can't we do that?

00:26:39.420 And as we rename Mount McKinley Mount McKinley, we're also going to look at McKinley's policies,

00:26:46.020 the policies that did make America rich.

00:26:48.640 We're going to start talking about tariffs, which Democrats and Republicans have been loathe

00:26:53.000 to talk about in recent years, as there has been a uniparty consensus on things like free

00:26:59.300 trade.

00:26:59.640 And Trump is saying, no, it's actually a more complicated story.

00:27:02.660 And maybe, maybe pursuing a policy of freer and freer trade, maybe that was good for a certain

00:27:08.460 time, but we're in a different time now.

00:27:10.200 And we need to adapt to changing circumstances.

00:27:12.580 Then, President Trump, speaking of foreign affairs, speaking of Latin America, gives a

00:27:18.900 little warning to the drug cartels that are poisoning our country, literally poisoning our

00:27:24.800 country, and sending millions and millions of foreigners into our country illegally.

00:27:30.720 Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist

00:27:38.840 organizations.

00:27:42.580 And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full

00:28:06.040 and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of

00:28:10.720 all foreign gangs and criminal networks, bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our 0.99

00:28:19.560 cities and inner cities.

00:28:21.260 As commander in chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and

00:28:34.080 invasions.

00:28:34.940 And that is exactly what I am going to do.

00:28:38.840 We will do it at a level that nobody's ever seen before.

00:28:42.360 I'm going to translate that for you.

00:28:44.400 A bunch of cholos with face tattoos are about to get a visit from U.S. 1.00

00:28:47.940 Special Forces.

00:28:48.620 That's what that policy means in practice.

00:28:51.220 In practice, to declare that the cartels are foreign terrorist organizations means that we

00:28:57.280 are, as we fight the global war on terror and its continuations and its permutations, we're

00:29:02.780 going to start targeting them.

00:29:04.360 Okay, we're going to go get jihadis in the Middle East. 0.55

00:29:06.740 That's good.

00:29:07.120 It's good to get jihadis, I guess. 1.00

00:29:08.400 But we have a threat that is much closer to home.

00:29:12.480 And that threat is the cartels at our border.

00:29:17.200 And all of a sudden, the same guys who are just blowing the heads off of jihadis in Syria,

00:29:23.420 they're going to start showing up in Guadalajara, okay?

00:29:26.480 They're going to start showing up a little closer to home.

00:29:29.020 If I were a Mexican with a face tattoo right now, I would go into hiding.

00:29:35.900 I'd put a lot of makeup on, I'd cover that up, and I would get out of Dodge because Trump

00:29:41.940 is signaling things are going to get very, very bad for them.

00:29:44.200 And it's a reminder that we still have political power.

00:29:47.760 The way the libs talk about the border, they say, oh, there's nothing to be done.

00:29:50.740 I know the majority of Americans not only want to close the border, but want to drastically

00:29:54.160 reduce all immigration. 0.78

00:29:55.120 But, you know, it just, it can't be done, you know, and that's so sad.

00:29:59.140 And Trump's saying, no, it can easily be done.

00:30:00.860 You just need to have courage and will.

00:30:03.400 You have to come to a smart conclusion, a correct conclusion about the problem.

00:30:08.600 Then you have to have will and courage to actually do something about it.

00:30:11.800 It's really easy, though.

00:30:12.980 U.S. special forces are unbelievable.

00:30:15.400 They're the most lethal fighting force ever in the history of the world. 0.98

00:30:18.800 They can blow the heads off some Mexican gangsters. 0.99

00:30:21.700 They're not that tough. 1.00

00:30:23.340 We just have to have the will to do it.

00:30:25.680 Trump's saying he will. 0.92

00:30:26.620 And speaking of those face tattooed, actually Satan worshiping, in some cases, Mexican gangsters, 0.96

00:30:34.420 President Trump makes a big point in that first speech to talk about God.

00:30:38.940 Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear.

00:30:47.640 But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.

00:30:53.700 I was saved by God to make America great again.

00:31:08.740 Thank you.

00:31:11.160 Thank you.

00:31:12.200 Thank you very much.

00:31:19.520 It's a clear statement.

00:31:23.000 And it's one that Trump gave with, I think, sincerity, but with a clear amount of humility.

00:31:31.720 This is where moving inside for the weather or maybe because there was a security threat, the latter, I think, is more likely.

00:31:37.400 This is where this, I think, helped Trump because he could speak real close up to a relatively small number of people and speak, I think, quite clearly from the heart.

00:31:49.420 Either the guy's a better actor than Brando or he's speaking from the heart.

00:31:52.120 I think if you have a bullet go through your ear and only miss the back of your skull because of an inexplicable last second jerk of the head.

00:32:02.100 He said, inexplicable by natural means, jerk of the head. 0.99

00:32:05.400 I think you're going to get religion and I think that's going to humble you a little bit. 0.99

00:32:08.920 And he says, I was saved by God.

00:32:13.160 None but the most hardened atheist could look at what happened in Pennsylvania, look at Trump's survival, and not say that it was God.

00:32:25.680 It was providential.

00:32:26.520 It's a priest friend of mine. 1.00

00:32:27.340 And Father Ruttler says, it's a wicked generation that seeks a sign and wonder, and it's a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders. 1.00

00:32:34.140 He says, I was saved by God for a purpose, to make America great again. 1.00

00:32:39.520 He wasn't saved by God just so that he can go play more golf, I don't think.

00:32:43.080 I don't think that would make sense.

00:32:44.960 He says, he certainly doesn't think that.

00:32:47.280 He says, I was saved for a purpose.

00:32:50.560 And that purpose is to make America great again.

00:32:54.600 Beautiful first speech.

00:32:58.700 Then he goes downstairs in the Capitol, and he gives an impromptu second speech.

00:33:03.960 Off the cuff.

00:33:05.640 And in this speech, he says off the top, he says, hey, all right, I want to talk about a few things.

00:33:10.500 When I wrote my speech for up there, I had a great speech.

00:33:13.960 And Melania and JD told me that I couldn't give this speech.

00:33:17.020 She said, they said, it's such a great speech, but you got all this mean stuff in there, and you're settling scores, and you're going after people, and you're being, and, you know, listen, Don, just come on.

00:33:27.580 Take that stuff out, please, sir.

00:33:30.500 And he says, okay, for the one upstairs, the formal official one, I'll keep it basically high-minded.

00:33:38.040 Trump settled his scores in the second one.

00:33:41.200 This speech was great.

00:33:42.800 And he's telling you this in the second speech.

00:33:44.780 He's saying, and so this is what I did.

00:33:46.020 And they told me I shouldn't talk about this.

00:33:47.680 Okay, I won't talk about this.

00:33:49.040 But it was like, I was saying this to Jeremy.

00:33:51.600 He and I were talking about it on the show yesterday.

00:33:53.540 It felt like a post-game interview.

00:33:58.660 You know, you get the Yankees manager comes up to the cameras after.

00:34:02.680 He goes, yeah, look, all right, this was all right.

00:34:04.380 This we should have done differently here.

00:34:05.860 Back up, actually, in the fourth inning.

00:34:07.740 I was thinking about doing this, but I ended up doing that.

00:34:09.880 That's what you get from Trump.

00:34:11.120 And so the second speech had this air to it that was a little bit more, I don't know, casual.

00:34:22.960 A little, but it was, to give you one little taste of it.

00:34:28.680 Here is Trump discussing, even deciding to give the second speech as he's walking with Melania.

00:34:36.280 And then we went out to the helicopter, though, just prior to this and said goodbye.

00:34:40.440 And it's a custom, and the wind is blowing like crazy.

00:34:44.020 And with the hat that she's wearing, she almost blew away.

00:34:47.560 We almost lost our first lady. 0.99

00:34:49.780 Thank you for being elevated.

00:34:50.920 She was being elevated off the ground.

00:34:53.700 She almost blew away.

00:34:55.140 No, so we all appreciate it, because you've been a great first lady.

00:35:00.300 A beautiful and a great first lady. 0.97

00:35:02.520 And they love our first lady.

00:35:05.360 You know, J.D., whenever I make his speech, I see hundreds of signs.

00:35:09.340 We love our first lady.

00:35:11.620 And they do, and they should.

00:35:13.180 She's great.

00:35:14.240 So he has his experience.

00:35:16.720 He's walking out.

00:35:18.260 He sees Biden off.

00:35:19.140 I was sitting there.

00:35:19.980 I saw Marine One flew right by us.

00:35:22.220 I waved goodbye to Joe Biden.

00:35:23.540 See you later.

00:35:24.260 I was considering a one-finger salute, but I said that wouldn't be dignified.

00:35:27.560 So I did a five-finger salute.

00:35:29.440 But then he says, I'm gonna go in, and I'm gonna give this speech anyway.

00:35:33.060 And some people will say, I know people are saying this, that it was a mistake for Trump

00:35:38.260 to give the second speech.

00:35:39.240 The first was so successful.

00:35:40.720 It was brief.

00:35:41.860 It was beautifully written.

00:35:44.280 He shouldn't have given the second speech.

00:35:47.540 What that criticism misunderstands is that this is what sets Trump apart.

00:35:54.500 Joe Biden doesn't give off-the-cuff speeches.

00:35:56.300 Obviously, he could not do that now.

00:35:57.840 He probably couldn't read a written speech.

00:35:59.740 Kamala Harris certainly can't do that. 1.00

00:36:02.420 Bill Clinton can do that, but he won't.

00:36:04.640 Bill Clinton is a pretty scripted guy.

00:36:07.000 Barack Obama, very scripted guy.

00:36:10.120 Trump, he does the thing.

00:36:13.860 And then he does commentary on the thing.

00:36:17.760 This is why Trump is not only a political figure, he's a meta-political figure.

00:36:22.700 This was true in the first administration, too.

00:36:24.580 He does politics about politics.

00:36:30.460 In the first administration, he says, look, I get up here, they tell me, I'm not very presidential.

00:36:35.360 I gotta, they tell me, this is what they say.

00:36:37.000 I gotta do, I gotta say this.

00:36:39.100 I gotta comb my hair this way.

00:36:41.180 I gotta do, but I don't wanna do it like that.

00:36:44.200 He's breaking the fourth wall.

00:36:45.820 He's, I don't know what other theatrical metaphors one can use.

00:36:49.600 But he's a showman.

00:36:50.680 This is a guy who's been in movies.

00:36:52.080 He's been in hit TV shows for years and years.

00:36:54.480 He's a real showman.

00:36:55.340 He is doing a kind of politics that is in another dimension.

00:37:03.140 He's doing the actual politics, these issues, for these reasons, with this history.

00:37:08.560 But then he's also doing a politics about the politics.

00:37:11.720 Which is why President Trump has this effect on our polity, which is that he's the guy who points out that the emperor has no clothes.

00:37:19.520 And that gives him a great deal of freedom.

00:37:21.940 Freedom to radically change the Republican Party.

00:37:24.580 Or rather, I think, to say, to restore the greatness of the Republican Party.

00:37:31.720 Because he's not within that system, the guy can be elected to a second term, a non-consecutive second term.

00:37:38.220 He's now dominated GOP politics for a decade.

00:37:40.640 And yet he's still kind of like an outsider.

00:37:43.660 That's what you got in the second speech.

00:37:46.040 That's the magic of the second speech.

00:37:48.120 That's part of the magic of Trump.

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00:38:41.640 My favorite comment yesterday is from Rigged Up Gaming.

00:38:46.780 Says, love the glasses, Mr. Knowles.

00:38:48.800 Thank you. 0.50

00:38:49.180 Here you were not talking about my Rachel Maddow lesbian glasses.

00:38:52.260 I think you were talking about my sunglasses.

00:38:54.120 I was wearing shades on the show yesterday.

00:38:55.940 We were sitting outside.

00:38:56.960 And the future is so bright that one must wear shades.

00:39:01.900 The liberal media, you will be unsurprised to hear, did not like Trump's speech.

00:39:06.920 Either of them.

00:39:07.800 Even the first one, which was extremely presidential and really quite beautiful.

00:39:11.720 People, they hated it.

00:39:15.780 New York Times was talking about how dark and divisive and how he presented a grim view of America.

00:39:22.380 No, he presented a very bright view of America.

00:39:25.260 Starting today.

00:39:26.700 Sorry, starting yesterday.

00:39:28.820 America has gone through very dark moments.

00:39:30.720 But it's looking bright.

00:39:31.640 It was a bright, sunshiny day yesterday.

00:39:33.780 Meanwhile, Biden was absolutely bitter.

00:39:36.740 This is according to CNN.

00:39:38.060 You don't have to take my word for it.

00:39:41.180 CNN spelled it out on inauguration day.

00:39:44.260 The final hours of his presidency were spent, reportedly, in a dark mood.

00:39:49.060 All of our reporting, talking to sources in recent days and weeks really suggests that the president is in a bit of a dark space when it comes to just his headspace in these very final days.

00:40:01.840 We are told that he never really stopped feeling angry about the fact that he believes he was forced out this pressure campaign to drop out of the 2024 race.

00:40:13.480 And then, especially since election day, when his vice president, Kamala Harris, was defeated by Donald Trump, he has grown increasingly embittered, we are told by sources, at the blame that he has gotten for Donald Trump's eventual return to the White House.

00:40:30.880 And one thing, importantly, that President Biden has been absolutely consistent about is this belief that he believes that had he stayed in the race, he would have defeated Donald Trump again.

00:40:42.520 Now, all of this adds up to, I would say, a mood of sadness and sort of this sense of tragedy here at the White House, those around him believing and actually hoping that when history judges President Biden years from now, that it will be a little bit more forgiving than how the president is being widely judged, at least today.

00:41:02.940 Jake.

00:41:03.220 History will not be more forgiving to Biden.

00:41:06.980 I'm willing to go with Biden a little bit here and say, at the very least, I think he would have done better than Kamala, even after the disastrous first debate.

00:41:16.540 Because he might have done better in the second debate.

00:41:18.780 They might have shot him up with more adrenaline.

00:41:21.440 Presidents have won elections after bad debates, even though the Biden debate was particularly bad because he could barely speak.

00:41:28.380 But I think he would have done better than Kamala.

00:41:30.200 Here's my proof.

00:41:31.560 Joe Biden has consistently been a much more popular politician than Kamala.

00:41:36.360 Kamala could barely win a race in California.

00:41:39.280 Kamala never won a single vote in a presidential primary while she was running. 0.92

00:41:43.560 There's no evidence that Kamala can win any national election.

00:41:47.920 There's zero evidence for that.

00:41:49.820 There is a lot of evidence that Joe Biden's very popular.

00:41:52.200 He got elected to the U.S. Senate before he was constitutionally eligible to run.

00:41:57.140 Okay.

00:41:57.980 Say what you will about Biden. 0.99

00:41:59.220 I think he's awful.

00:42:01.180 But he's been popular over the years.

00:42:03.720 He's certainly more popular than she is.

00:42:05.480 Even a drooling Joe Biden is more popular than, and also frequently drooling Kamala Harris.

00:42:10.920 Though she does not have the excuse of dementia, allegedly.

00:42:15.580 History will not judge Biden well.

00:42:18.680 Not because he didn't run or he tried to run and he got booted out or this, that, or the other thing.

00:42:25.020 History will not judge Biden well because he's never accomplished anything.

00:42:29.060 He's never accomplished anything.

00:42:30.440 The one thing you could say Joe Biden accomplished would be when he was in the Senate, he spearheaded an important crime bill. 0.98

00:42:38.440 And that was the one thing that he ran away from because he was trying to suck up for the black vote.

00:42:42.580 And he mistakenly believed that turning on his one accomplishment, which is to actually put criminals in prison, that that would help him. 0.98

00:42:48.940 It didn't work.

00:42:50.460 That's it.

00:42:51.100 What else has he done?

00:42:51.900 Not only does he leave the White House and leave his entire political career without any notable accomplishment whatsoever over half a century in politics, but he leaves looking corrupt.

00:43:06.700 He leaves looking undignified.

00:43:09.220 He leaves looking petty and out for personal gain.

00:43:13.820 Joe Biden is a relatively wealthy guy.

00:43:16.340 He's a wealthy guy for having been a government employee his whole life.

00:43:19.620 And we have some speculation as to how he got that rich, because we know that his kid was peddling influence all around the world.

00:43:29.500 We know that Joe Biden was involved in Hunter Biden's business.

00:43:32.920 We know he was on a lot of phone calls with Hunter Biden's business pals who were shaking down foreign countries, peddling Joe's influence, getting money.

00:43:40.860 And we know from the Hunter Biden laptop that Hunter Biden at least said that he was kicking up 10% or even half of it to the big guy, Joe Biden.

00:43:49.000 So Biden is leaving not merely as a nothing. 0.93

00:43:52.940 He's leaving as looking like a dirty, sleazy politician. 0.95

00:43:56.380 I think that's why he's in a dark mood.

00:43:58.740 I think he's in a dark mood, not because of the 2024 election and how he really thought he could win.

00:44:08.140 And he said publicly that he had a sense that maybe he couldn't totally finish out a second term.

00:44:14.400 He's even admitting that now.

00:44:15.820 I think it's the reality of his career, which was pointless.

00:44:18.980 It was worse than pointless.

00:44:20.380 It was disreputable.

00:44:23.380 I think that's what's hitting him.

00:44:24.540 I think it's the telltale heart.

00:44:26.120 It's just beating.

00:44:27.100 He's hearing it beat a little bit.

00:44:28.280 He's considering his own missed opportunities and his own sins, basically.

00:44:34.500 And by the way, here's my proof of this.

00:44:36.820 His last action as president was to pardon his whole family.

00:44:40.840 He pardoned the whole family.

00:44:42.300 We know that Joe Biden gave Hunter a 10-year pardon, blanket pardon for any crimes that he did or might have committed.

00:44:51.940 Any crimes of which he was accused and crimes that he wasn't even yet accused of.

00:44:55.920 And he just did the same thing for his brother, James, for his sister-in-law, Sarah Jones Biden, for his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, for his brother-in-law, John T. Owens, and for his younger brother, Francis.

00:45:09.140 Pardons to cover any nonviolent offense from, and this is where it looks so dirty, from January 1st, 2014, until the day before Trump's inauguration.

00:45:22.840 Why did he have to do this?

00:45:27.500 The Trump team, the conservatives will say he didn't really have to do this.

00:45:31.700 Trump was not going to go after the Biden family.

00:45:33.700 There's no indication Trump was going to go after them.

00:45:36.960 Now, Joe might have thought that he had to do this because they were maybe guilty of crimes.

00:45:42.980 Maybe because, yeah, they did run a little family business called selling American influence to the highest bidder.

00:45:49.080 Yeah, maybe they did enrich themselves.

00:45:51.060 Yeah, maybe if they were investigated, there would be a lot of dirt to dig up.

00:45:57.020 The guilty flee when none pursueth.

00:46:00.020 That's it.

00:46:00.640 And I don't think Trump's talked about pursuing it.

00:46:02.620 I don't think he would have. 0.98

00:46:04.780 He was corrupt. 0.99

00:46:06.440 Joe Biden was a corrupt guy. 0.99

00:46:07.860 And he might not have even started out that way. 0.81

00:46:09.680 I don't know that he was corrupt in 1971.

00:46:12.280 But at the very least, he became corrupt over time.

00:46:14.940 And that's how he ends.

00:46:16.600 That's the end of the Biden story.

00:46:19.520 A corrupt politician worked in government his whole life.

00:46:25.340 And he made some money.

00:46:27.220 And he seems to have pretty miserable circumstances around him.

00:46:32.700 It reminds me, I talked about Chester Arthur at the top of the show.

00:46:34.900 We've been talking about a lot of 19th century American politics.

00:46:37.040 Chester Arthur wrote advice to his son after leaving the White House.

00:46:40.780 He said, don't pursue a political career.

00:46:42.620 It's not worth it.

00:46:43.720 And Chester Arthur had spent a lot of his career as a corrupt politician,

00:46:47.100 though he reformed at the end of his career.

00:46:49.640 But he said, the sacrifices are not worth it.

00:46:52.180 It's really hard.

00:46:53.660 It's really, really hard, especially if you want to do it in a dignified way.

00:46:56.600 It's very, very difficult.

00:46:58.580 So Biden ends.

00:47:00.140 He accomplished nothing.

00:47:01.180 I guess he made a little bit of money.

00:47:03.500 And now that chapter's over.

00:47:05.200 And we have a new chapter from Trump.

00:47:06.440 And this feels bigger than just four years ending.

00:47:10.440 This feels bigger than a presidential term ending.

00:47:12.620 This feels like a massive shift in politics in the way America understands herself.

00:47:20.660 What America, America has meant thing, different things to Americans over time.

00:47:24.380 We like to think that America is just frozen in ember.

00:47:28.380 You know, America is an idea and it just means liberty and low taxes or something.

00:47:32.540 That's not always been true.

00:47:34.700 And it feels like we're moving into some new self-conception of America.

00:47:38.360 And maybe, if Trump is right, that's going to be a golden age.

00:47:42.640 It was such a good day for Trump yesterday.

00:47:44.560 I haven't even gotten into how he became a crypto billionaire and how now something like 85% of his net worth, 89% of his net worth, sorry, is in crypto.

00:47:52.540 I guess I'm going to have to get to that tomorrow.

00:47:55.400 There's no member block today because I'm in D.C. and I have to come home.

00:47:58.380 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:47:58.940 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:47:59.920 I'll see you all tomorrow.

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00:48:12.100 God bless America.

00:48:13.400 Hope you all for having as good a time as I am.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 21, 2025

Ep. 1656 - Over 200 Trump Executive Actions Bring MASSIVE Change

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